Siskel & Ebert At The Movies The Best of 1983 (Full Show) 

I watched this as a 12 year old excited to see where Return of the Jedi, which I thought about every day for the previous three years, would rank. I was so upset it wasn't chosen. Nearing 50, I agree with Siskel & Ebert.

Blue Thunder was my number 1 best flim of the year 1983

The Right Stuff and Terms of Endearment are the standouts of '83 for me.

That scene in The Right Stuff...towards the end all the astronauts were in the Astrodome listening to Debussy’s Clair de Lune ...no words necessary

Fanny and Alexander, the big masterpiece of Ingmar Bergman that is a peak of a great career

My favorite films of 1983: 1. The King of Comedy 2. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 3. Zelig 4. The Big Chill 5. Silkwood 6. Return of the Jedi 7. Berlin Alexanderplatz 8. Star Eighty 9. The Year of living dangerously 10. The Dresser So there.

Great time capsule. Miss those two

El Norte is a great film, and still relevant.

STAR 80, the first time I seen was so chilling. Eric Roberts as the psychotic Paul Snider was robbed at the Oscar's, as he also wasn't nominated. Only a Golden Globe nomination. R.I.P. Dorothy Stratten. I, as my own critic gave the film ***½.

Not seen Pauline at the beach, Betrayed, or The Return of Martin Guerre.....But beyond that ALL these movies are GREAT! (Especially The Right Stuff, The Year of Living Dangerously, and the magical El Norte)

They really should put all the Siskel and Ebert shows on Netflix or one of the other streaming services.

Local Hero is an absolute gem of a film.

I want to see Say Amen Somebody so bad thanks to Ebert. I hope Criterion or something releases it-release it, somebody! :)

I remember watching Siskel & Ebert’s At The Movies every week on Chicago’s Superstation WGN and on WKYT TV-27 in Lexington.

My Top 10 1. The King of Comedy 2. A Christmas Story 3. Return of the Jedi 4. National Lampoon's Vacation 5. Rumble Fish 6.. Evil Dead 7. Scarface 8. The Right Stuff 9. Trading Places 10. Risky Business

Some of my favourite movies of 1983 includes: -Return Of The Jedi -Vacation -Trading Places -Cujo -Risky Business -Sixteen Candles -John Carpenter’s Christine -Psycho II -Silkwood -Right Stuff -Terms Of Endearment -The Big Chill -Testament -The House On Sorority Row

I'm glad Siskel & Ebert both liked Risky Business. That's such a fun and emotional movie.

All those years I didn't realize that Siskel and Ebert are being seen during the closing credits as the last ones leaving the theater. You can see them at 22:26.

My list (based on North American release dates): 1. Fanny and Alexander 2. El Norte 3. Terms of Endearment 4. Koyaanisqatsi 5. Scarface 6. Local Hero 7. The Right Stuff 8. Boat People 9. Tender Mercies 10. Danton

They overlooked a HELL of a lot of great films from '83, but a decent list.

My list of best of 1983 Risky Business The Outsiders Trading Places Christine Scarface The Right Stuff Silkwood Valley Girl The Big Chill Local Hero Fanny & Alexander Testament The Year of Living Dangerously Terms or Endearment Say Amen, Somebody

I didn't always agree with these guys but I definitely enjoyed their show. I probably watched every episode in the 80s.

Terms of Endearment was a good movie and also very sad. But there are some notable films missing from their lists like Return of the Jedi, Scarface, and Trading Places. All of those three were great films and some of the best of the 80’s. I re-watched Trading Places a while ago and it still holds up very well, especially compared to a lot of other 80’s comedies. Movies that came out in the past were overall better than a lot of today’s blockbuster films.

IIRC 13 years later, Gene got that Terms of Endearment sequel!

Thanks for posting these. They are a throwback to a more innocent time.

I saw Star 80 on cable when I was a little kid, and it messed me up. I was probably too young for it.

I'm shocked they didn't include "Tender Mercies" or "Local Hero" or "Never Cry Wolf", etc.

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Dead Zone, Hunger, Videodrome, Scarface, Terms of Endearment, Thriller. Havent seen Silkwood yet but want to.

Thanks for uploading this! Loved and miss these guys. Most of my favorite films are from the 1970s and 1980s. Great films by great filmmakers, nothing like the junk we have now. "Terms of Endearment" is my favorite film, period.

Terms / Endearment: a good but not great soap opera, won best picture. For me, Right Stuff was the best picture (thank u, Roger & Gene!)

thank you for posting this.

Terms of Endearment oh gawd..😭😭 I can't watch it anymore, it makes me too sad

Revenge of the Ninja? One of 1983's finest.

Glad to see Silkwood and the soul crushing Testament. These two had me scratching my head for a minute but they pulled it out at the end. Remember seeing this in December of '83, and it's been a long time since I've seen this. Ahh, memories of youth

i was 11 in 83, my Father never censored me and Star 80 was on cable constantly for awhile. my Father and his friends would often watch while they were hanging out, presumably because of the nudity and i of course as an 11 year old was watching it all the time on my own for the same reason. but even then i really did understand what a heartbreaking and tragic true story it is. a story of a really vile self absorbed person trying to use a fairly sheltered and sweet young women for his own attention and then trying to suffocate her as she grows, basically literally later on as he stopped getting his way. i lived in Oklahoma and Silkwood was also a standard on cable for awhile and all the more jarring for me as a kid because it took place here. there are still not satisfactory answers in that case. Terms Of Endearment and The Right Stuff are of course classics and wonderful films. some of these others i do not even remember, i may have to look them up. and of course some of my favorite films did not even make either list. but mostly i just look around at the shallow fare we have being released these days, really miss films with some humanity and heartbreak and joy.

I'm sure these are all great films. Although if somebody stopped me on the street and said, "quick, name something that happened in 1983", I'd probably say the release of Return of the Jedi.

Both "Star 80" and "Risky Business" are terribly underrated.

A great year for blockbuster sequals 1983.

8:16 Star 80 review.

My right ear enjoyed

Scarface, Return of the Jedi, The Right Stuff, Vacation, The Dead Zone, Rumble Fish, The Meaning of Life, A Christmas Story, Videodrome and The Boxers Omen

Testament was amazing and sad.

Eric Roberts is such an underrated actor!

what no Trading Places? that was one of the best movies of 1983 too

83 was a good year for movies. Tom cruise movie trajectory in the 80s must be the blue print for a rising star. I wonder if winger would have rather been in a supporting rather than share the lead with shirley in the Oscars. She def would have won for supporting. Star 80 , I saw many years after as I was born after , I never heard of dorothy but it really freaked me out. I did not expect it.

My favorite of 1983 has to be Gerald Kargl's "Angst"

I need to set this theme song for my mobile phone to wake up on Sunday mornings.

He dropped the charges! Jesus dropped the charges! 🎶 😄

My list: 1. Fanny and Alexander (long version) 2. The Right Stuff 3. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi 4. Scarface 5. Tender Mercies 6. Bad Boys 7. El Norte 8. The King of Comedy 9. Strange Brew 10. Sudden Impact

1. Terms of Endearment 2. Narayama bushiko (The Ballad of Narayama) 3. Fanny och Alexander 4. Le retour de Martin Guerre 5. The Dresser 6. El norte 7. The Year of Living Dangerously 8. Silkwood 9. Entre nous 10. Cross Creek

How did Return of the Jedi and WarGames miss this list???

My personal Top 10 films of 1983, plus some honorable mentions; and I don't include Fanny & Alexander because its original release date is 1982, even though it wasn't released in the US until 1983: 1) A Christmas Story (1983) 2) Return of the Jedi (1983) 3) The Right Stuff (1983) 4) Krull (1983) - Critics, especially Siskel and Ebert, hated it, but I loved it. 5) El Sur (1983) 6) Careful, He Might Hear You (1983) 7) Tender Mercies (1983) 8) The Ballad of Narayama (1983) 9) Danton (1983) 10) Pauline at the Beach (1983) ----------------------------------- 11) The Dead Zone (1983) 12) Terms of Endearment (1983) 13) The 4th Man (1983) 14) Never Cry Wolf (1983) 15) El Norte (1983) 16) Betrayal (1983) 17) Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

I love science fiction like --- -The right stuff 😆😆

did he review the star chamber?

Risky Business featured one of cinema's most instantly recognizable scores, most famous dance numbers in film history, most iconic images of a hero with TC in Raybans, became a symbol of its materialistic age that now is revisited as a portrayal of innocence, and yet it is a blueprint for coming of age dramas that has survived 40 years. Whether you like Cruise or not, it isnt really debatable if its a great film.

Savannah smiles was the years best family film

Does anyone know how accurate The Right Stuff is? Or what Glenn and the rest of them thought of the movie? I believe that I have the Tom Wolfe book , but never read it.

So they used the same music here as they did for Worst of the Year show, but they would add the sound effect for Worst at the end of it.

No Flashdance ?:))

She told me we could make more money in one night than I could in a year. She told me she'd be my girlfriend. She told me a lot of things. I believed them all.

First time director James l Brooks. No mention of his bro though.

In future your videos need more volume

Well, Gene got his sequel, The Evening Star.

I miss analysis like this. The US no longer cares about the arts. High art to us is a Taylor Swift concert and movie theatres are flooded with Marvel movies.

They were on the money with The Right Stuff. The best film of the 80's, in my opinion.

Gene Siskel: “I want a sequel to Terms of Endearment!”…oops!

No “Return of The Jedi”?

Did anyone notice that one of the executive producers is named Sheldon Cooper, just like the character from "The Big Bang Theory."

Where is the cord on the phone Shirley is holding?

No Scarface?

Now I feel bad that I've never seen any of these movies.

Executive Producer Sheldon Cooper?

C. O

Terms of the Endearment is such a revelation. Burt Reynolds was offered the part of Breedlove the Astronaught, Nicholson's part, but he turned it down for fucking STROKER ACE.

“Thousands of Illegal aliens trying to enter the country” the good old days 😡

Gene got his sequel to terms of endearment....unfortunately it was horrible

I grew up in the shadow of Mission Control among NASA and astronaut families. No one could stand The Right Stuff. It was an atrocious bore that was has been forgotten.

Where is WarGames? It has now become a cult classic for my Generation, I was 10 when I caught this....Sudden Impact was a great police thriller too. The Right Stuff just glorified a period in US space exploration history....it was boring and too long.

I don't recommend the FOUR hr Fanny / Alexander

I can't believe how positive this comment section is. These two are insufferable. The way they look at movies is crazy.

If you post your own top 10 you qualify as being just as pretentious as most Hollywood actors.

The Right Stuff is merely watchable. It has a Hollywood Cheesiness quality to it. Any scene with Barbara Hershey I found to be completely forgettable causing the movie to be way too long (3 hours 13 min). Ways to edit this movie & make it better: (1) Remove any scene with Barbara Hershey. (2) Remove all the Australian Aboriginal scenes (that was pure torture). (3) Remove the cheesy attempt at humor with Harry Shearer (great in Spinal Tap, unnecessary here).

RIGHT STUFF was so boring and long.

Tom Cruise 👎🏼

1982 was a perfect year but 1983 sucked for movies